Communication Department Blog

Dr. Lori Peterson, associate professor of Communication, published her research on narrative choices in a woman's maternity leave in a book edited by Sara Hayden and Lynn O'Brien Hallstein. The book, entitled "Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction" won the Organization for the Study of Culture, Language, and Gender's 2011 Outstanding Book Award for an edited volume.​​Full citation: Peterson, L.W. (2010). Cutting the meeting short: Conflicting narrative choices in one woman’s maternity leave. In S. Hayden & L. O’Brien Hallstein (Eds.) Contemplating Maternity in the Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, A Division of Rowman & Littlefield, 227-246.